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Marylebone 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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CONTENTS
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Members of the Public Health Committee 3
Staff of the Public Health Department 3
Section A—Statistics and Social Conditions :—
General Statistics 4
Extracts from Vital Statistics 4
Marriages 4
Deaths 4, 5
Infant Mortality 5
Section B — General Provision of Health
Services :—
Representation upon other Bodies 6
Conferences 6
Financial Contributions to Voluntary
Organisations 6
Care of Old People 7
Special Laundry Service 7
Cleansing 7
St. Marylebone Old People's Welfare
Association 7
Diseased or Infirm Persons 8
Staff Medical Examinations 8
New Legislation 8
Section C—Sanitary Circumstances :—
Sanitary Inspection 9
Nuisances 9
Notices 9
Legal Proceedings 9
Noise 10
Pigeons 10
Water 10
Drainage 10
Legal Proceedings 10
Combined Drainage 11
Ventilation of Sewers 11
Rodent Control 11
Disinfestation 11
Verminous Persons 12
Shelter 12
Atmospheric Pollution 12
Factories 13
Inspections and Defects Found 13
Out-Workers 14
Offices and Shops 14
Fireguards 15
Inspection 15
Accidents in the Home 15
Hairdressers and Barbers 15
Pet Shops 15
Poisons 16
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials 16
Public Conveniences 16
Public Cleansing and Salvage 16
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Burial or Cremation of the Dead 16
Crematorium 17
Dog Nuisance 17
Street Photographers 17
Section d—Housing :—
Permanent Estates
Pre-War Estates 17
Post-War Estates 17
St. Marylebone Housing Association 18
Slum Clearance Programme 18
Factory-Made Bungalows 18
Requisitioned Premises 18
Dwelling Houses—Inspection, etc. 18
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954—
Certificates 19
Re-housing 19
Immigrants 19
Common Lodging Houses 19
Section e—Food :—
Food and Drugs Analysis 19
Legislation 20
Legal Proceedings 21
Unsound Food 21
Flaked Hen Egg Albumen 22
Milk 22
Ice-Cream 22
Preserved Food 22
Restaurants, etc. 22
Fried Fish Shops and Fish Curers 23
Wholesale and Retail Foodshops 23
Bakehouses 23
Butter and Margarine Premises 23
Horseflesh 23
Slaughter of Animals 23
St. Marylebone Clean Food Association 23
Section f—Infectious and Other Diseases :—
Notifiable Diseases 24
Tuberculosis 24
New Cases and Deaths 24
Notifications 24
Food Poisoning Outbreaks 25
Impetigo 25
Scabies 25
Venereal Diseases 25
Disinfection 25
Exclusion from Work of Contacts of
Infectious Disease 25
International Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation 25
Bacteriological Examinations 26